The Hawaiian gazette., 1887-04-19

-;,.h, ,ss until his ewes stuck out like pee'ied
c,s,ons sal in a mortar bed. Blin then 1T me
INTO the secret, sayiags You know, r. Solscap
holds all these hillsts, and that accounts for
the poor fellow locking 50 hum oacked the
last time YOU saw him. Sure enough,
noticed that he was considerably doubled up
when l met him last week. But" said l,
"whas has FOolScap done that the Grand
Duke should pile all this extra weight on the
poor fellow7N "rheSs little billets, you
know" said Hlif, " are Sineeures, and Fools
cap mas been kindly donated with the honor,
while suspect the Grand Duke will scoop the
ShekelS for his own cheek. Rocnd-headed
Grand Duke. eh?" Oh. my, If l only had
that billet of Pnrloiner-General l think |
could force divvy" on this lay. As u Is
one man gets all the dpcatS while the Others
look on and see hum appropriate them 10 the
Privy Purse, which is too bad, am told
that all these billets aggregate about SlS,Ooso
per annum-a nice little plum for one 10 pick
up. and there are not many trees bearing this
particular fruit at present.
saw Bib. the other day and noticed thss
he WAS down in the mouth, and thas some
thing " hsfty Was praying on the boy
mind. so SAYS l. 'SBliff. what's the trouble,
eh old boy ? " oh" SAYS Blif., Il had a,
terrible dream last night, and have not got
over Il vet" | asked Btf. To tell me all
about It, but the poor fellow was so over
come he could hardly speak. Finally after
persuasion Bliff. related 10 ME the following
horrible tale No wonder the boy felt all
.'broke up.H Ii seems that q banquet was
being given by the Gand Duke 10 the army,
ana navy officers Of the Duked0m, Including
old NoshlS, snd several 'dlgnStarleS on
board the Conundrum. Everything was
going on nicely, and the fun was az high
water mark-Admiral Grls!ey had Just pro-
posed the health of the Grand Admiral. and
the latter Was about 10 rise to respond, when
NoSbig interrupted His Royal HlghneSs, BY
clearing his throat and saying er-r>r-m :
when sill of 3 sudden there Was
daafeuiug sound and 3 sudden upward move
msut of . all hands and the cook including
the COnundrum. =" Oh, SAYS Bllh., :" Ii wss
terrible to thing of-to imagine you were
fred upward out of > cannon. and going so
high that one could look down into Punch
bowl or Dimond Hesd. and I was not alone
either. for there was Admiral GrlSley and the
smoksStack following after me, while the
Grand Admiral, Nosbis and the dignisaries
were all upward bound While up II the air
as that dizzy height l thought saw the
Ducal Castle in hot pursuit OF Us all-the
whole scene intsrspsrSed with portions OF the
once invineibIs COuundrum flying around
loose. On coming down l passed NOSbig,
still bound up, and hailed him 10 know
what's up but all l could make out was
H6rsr-r u, and passed Oh down: meeting
the Grand Admiral I raised my hat, but he
seemed IN hurry TO catch up with Nosbig
who was above him and he did not notice me.
On came, down, down, until splash l went
into the water. III front Of the kapiolani
Bath House, where HaE. daInms disap-
psarsd & short time ago. sad then I woke up.
Where do you think found myself eh ?" I
said e don't kuOE-cOuld'u ut guess. = At
home. Of course, where ought TO be" BlI1
asked NE If I believed in dreams. I said
'yes-soustimss they come true. after
wards learned that Blif. had dined with
Nosbig. and had partaken freely OF q seler-
Gus supply OF dun. = topping Of with large
piece Of miuce pie, which probably accounted
for the boys bad dream Il Is fortunate II
was only : dream. for what would become OF
the Dukedon if the Grand Admiral and tina
Conundrun were non -. Echo answers
'' W hat " ELASEUE.